Using a large national household survey, this analysis provides evidence on the differences in financial decision-making and outcomes between military veterans and nonveterans, as well as between different types of military veterans. I find that veterans have slightly better overall financial standing, more problems with spending, and slightly better savings outcomes relative to comparable non-...

Military children don't exist in a vacuum; rather, they are embedded in and deeply influenced by their families, neighborhoods, schools, the military itself, and many other interacting systems. To minimize the risks that military children face and maximize their resilience, write Harold Kudler and Colonel Rebecca Porter, we must go beyond clinical models that focus on military children as indiv...

Methods: Military medical surveillance data were obtained and summarized, and a working group of epidemiology and injury expertswas formed.After reviewing the available data, theworking group used predefıned criteria to score leading military unintentional injury causes on fıve main criteria that assessed factors contributing to program and policy success: (1) importance of the problem, (2) eff...

Since the advent of the all-volunteer force in the 1970s, marriage, parenthood, and family life have become commonplace in the U.S. military among enlisted personnel and officers alike, and military spouses and children now outnumber service members by a ratio of 1.4 to 1. Reviewing data from the government and from academic and nonacademic research, Molly Clever and David R. Segal find several...

An overview will be presented of the military challenge we are currently facing along with our investment strategy for developing advanced weapons systems. The major role of improved reliability in reducing both the operation and maintenance costs as well as increasing our military combat capability will be examined along with the key role of R&D programs in meeting future reliability requireme...

In a recent editorial in Biostatistics, Peng (2009) introduced a system for making data and computer code from papers in the journal publicly available so that other researchers can reproduce the statistical analyses in the paper. The editors explain in a short accompanying note (Diggle and Zeger, 2009) that ‘we wish to encourage the practice of making research published in the journal reproduc...

In this work we extend from the single agent to the on-line multi-agent stochastic policy recognition problem using a network structure. By using knowledge of agents’ interrelations we can create a policy structure that is compatible with that of a hostile military organisation. Using this approach we make use of existing knowledge about the military organisation and thereby strongly reduce the...

Between military contingents involved in multinational operations, there often exist basic organizational and cultural differences, such as the ways in which personnel are treated, the parameters within which people must work, and the very function and structure of the military organization. The management of human resources within each respective organization is often dependent on national nor...

This article presents a life course conceptual model and applies it to the study of military women's experiences and the effect of those life events on their well-being. Of special concern are the effects on women serving in direct combat jobs, as well as in any specialties operating in a hostile environment. Drawing on previous research, the model considers and gives examples of how a woman's ...

With many service members now returning to the United States from the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, concern over adequate access to behavioral health care (treatment for mental, behavioral, or addictive disorders) has risen. Yet data remain very sparse regarding how many service members (and their dependents) reside in locations remote from behavioral health providers, as well as th...